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Monday, 11 April 2011

It's been one of those weeks. Who am I kidding? This started about two weeks ago, although I didn't suspect those next two weeks would basically be in the toilet. Oh, there've been some summits that havekept me sane, but the nadirs... Yeah, they've been pretty good. It could be worse, of course.

So, it started with quarterly reports. I wanted to complete them a week ago Monday, and I have this fabulous accounting program that cuts the time down by 7 or 8 days, maybe more. It's just that I have aknack for finding all of the bugs in this program. It seems every time I use it, I break it. (It's a gift, truly.) This time, I accidentally put in a date when importing some data that made the program crash. (See, I told you I'm good.) They knew about this bug, but no one in the history of the program had found it until...me. (g) I had to send my database to the programmers to fix. Luckily, they work fast. However, this, and a few other things, put me back a day.

I suppose this should have been an omen of sorts for these next twoweeks. It wasn't. I mean, I'm used to screwing up the program. (g) Itwas par for the course, and all was well until Saturday night.

That night Lily came down with a really nasty cold and a fever so highshe burned to the touch. This is particularly scary as Lily has hadseizures. For two days, sleep did not exist.

It's been up and down from there on out with too many troughs and notenough summits that it's almost funny.

I managed to finish quarterly reports and send them all out a week agoTuesday, nearly a week in advance. That's a first. Yay me! ButWednesday saw me cleaning the biohazard of a front shower as Mom andJan, a family friend I haven't seen for 7 years, are coming to staywith us on Friday. If I didn't clean it, Mom would, and I'd beembarrassed to let anyone use it.

Mind you, sleep had still eluded me even though Lily's cold hadimproved to just a cough. With each successive day, I was growing moreexhausted and grumpier. They were scheduled to arrive Friday. Theydid, but not until midnight. Mom had a key, but couldn't get it towork so she called me. I was sleeping, and despite being exhausted, Ipulled my ass out of bed and sat up for another hour. I could sleep inin the morning, right?

Hahahahaha

Um, no. Lily was so excited that Grandma was here, she was up, which meant I was up because she had to come into our bedroom first and wake _me_.

(I love her, but sometimes... ;))

My Saturday plans were shot to hell because Jan wanted to go to Malibu and spend the day on the beach. Lucky for him, we had a beautiful day. Besides seeing them, this was one of the bright spots of the past two weeks. I played with Lily, and we built a sand castle.